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Fixes Confluence clause page error search returns draft clause instead of approved clause by applying the specific fix in the steps and proving it on one clause page first. Use when this failure blocks a clause lookup, template build, contract review or clause report. Not for platform outages or unrelated library clea…
Fix this in Help Scout Docs by search draft collections from the agent preview instead of the public index, and if readers need those articles, publish the collection and request a reindex rather than expecting public search to surface drafts. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents working in the help ce…
Fix this in Zendesk Guide by restrict the AI answer source to published articles only, remove draft articles from the answer index, and reindex so drafts stay invisible until they are published and approved. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents working in the help center. Not for platform outages or bi…
Fixes the Help center problem where Unfinished draft article published early and live for customers by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in the help center. Not f…
Fixes this failure: make the agent post to the private timeline by default and require an explicit public flag for any external update. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Fixes GraphQL 'query complexity limit exceeded' errors when an agent fetches all review threads on a PR. Use it when a single big threads query is rejected for being too expensive. Key trigger: the complexity-limit error on a review-threads query.
Fixes agents reviewing closed PRs by checking PR state before posting. Use when the agent posts to merged/closed PRs. Not for reviews posted before close.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent auto-closed a ticket the customer was still replying to: race condition - auto-close agent closed an active p1 ticket: stale-status race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted a review on an already-closed PR: race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents losing state on mid-review rebases by keying state to the commit SHA. Use when a rebase wipes the agent's progress. Not for force-pushes without rebase.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent lost its drafted comments when the runner was preempted: persistence: how to fix - [agent auto-closed an upgrade PR as "stale" while a human was mid-review, then reopened an identical on…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent lost review state when the PR was rebased mid-review
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents silently losing comments past GitHub's inline comment limits by batching and summarizing. Use when some agent comments never appear. Not for comments rejected with errors.
Fixes review agents spamming re-review requests on every CI rerun by gating on new commits. Use when the agent re-requests review without new changes. Not for legitimate re-review after pushes.
Fixes review agents reviewing the base branch instead of the PR head by fetching the correct ref. Use when the review discusses code not in the PR. Not for stale-head reviews.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to read the base branch: reviewed main-to-feature instead of feature-to-main: how to fix - [dependabot: update failed with "reference already exists" - the agent's rebase loop kee…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reviewed the base branch instead of the head ref
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents double-posting identical reviews by adding idempotency. Use when the same review appears twice on a PR. Not for two genuinely different reviews.
Fixes review agents commenting on the wrong PR due to pagination indexing bugs. Use when agent comments land on a different PR than intended. Not for comments on the right PR but wrong lines.
Fixes review agents summarizing the merge commit by diffing base against head. Use when the summary describes base-branch changes. Not for summaries of the wrong PR.
Fixes review-agent queue starvation by adding aging to the priority scheme. Use when old PRs never get reviewed while new ones jump ahead. Not for queues that are simply overloaded.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for the pages build queue: preview build stalled for 30 minutes - [linkedin 'you have reached the weekly invitation limit' - agent's connection step blocked with no queue for …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent review queue starved: oldest PR never reached, priority inversion
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents crashing on deleted PR branches by handling 404s gracefully. Use when the branch is deleted mid-review. Not for 404s on the PR itself.
Fixes review agents degrading to plain comments by granting the token write scope or documenting the limitation. Use when the agent cannot submit formal reviews. Not for agents with write access.